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If you want racism to stop, then a pattern of assimilation has to be set and adhered to.
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That point is more contentious than you might think. Some ethnic minorities want to assimilate and "be like everybody else," but others want to hold on to their heritage and native culture while being free to operate in a foreign culture. To some extent, they should be allowed to do whichever.
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We're not going to eliminate racism without eliminating difference (which means we'd find other ways to differentiate and hate each other, I suppose).
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I don't see any way of eliminating difference without massive genocide, which is obviously undesirable. The key is to teach people that difference isn't a bad thing, but rather an interesting and enriching thing.
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The best you can hope for in a mult-ethnic society like ours is tolerance, for anything and everything. I know people who are closet racists, verbally, at least. As long as they don't do anything to harm or impede someone, though, then so what? That might be as close to acceptance as we'll get for awhile, from some people, at least.
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Agreed.